Here’s a picture we found of Wonder, who's been blind since infancy, in 1965 with a little white dog with tear marks. Wonder wrote the music in ’66, it had that calliope motif (hey, let’s call it a “circus sound”, gang) and it inspired Robinson to bring the clown idea into the lyrics and from there, it was just a hop, skip, and a jump to invoke a 19th-century Leoncavallo opera. Induction into the Songwriters and Rock and Roll H alls of F ame was to be expected. The 100 million records he has sold and his 30 Top 10 hits, Academy Award for Best Song and 22 Grammy Awards attest to his talent and skills. We’re throwing a lot of facts at you but it’s Little Stevie’s birthday so try to keep up. Throughout his prolific career, Stevie Wonder has been rightfully regarded as a musical genius. 1, and the only one to receive the Grammy for Album of the Year for three. 1 album, the first to reach that summit with a live recording, the first American to have an album debut at No. He has set new benchmarks of popularity and artistry throughout his career: the youngest to have a No. But by that time, Wonder had already been on Motown’s Tamla label for six years because he’s the child prodigy formerly known as Little Stevie Wonder who was discovered by Ronnie White of the Miracles. Stevie Wonder is among the most celebrated, influential and inspiring musicians of the past half-century. It would be an exaggeration to say we were legit shook when we found out Wonder co-wrote this classic but we were definitely shook-adjacent because who knew? First of all, this Smokey Robinson & the Miracles track came out in 1967 when Wonder was just 17. Stevie Wonder gained prominence in the early 1960s as a musical prodigy, and his dance hits and love songs have segued over the years into thoughtful.
‘The Tears of a Clown’ Photo by Paul Slade/Archive Photos/Getty Images
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